▲ 531 ▼ Know your genocide apologists (media.kbin.social) submitted 3 years ago by PugJesus@kbin.social to c/noncredibledefense@lemmy.world 278 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 years ago (2 children) Ok. I encourage you to read Animal Farm, it's probably a lot less boring than this Graeber guy. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sudneo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago Orwell wrote a critique of modern society, soviet Stalinist society in particular, in animal farm. It's not an anthropology book, it's political satire that came from a socialist (!). I am not sure your induction that it applies to all humans under every circumstance was therefore intended by the author (lord of the flies might be a much better example in this case). Graeber is actually far for boring, and as an anthropologist his writing tend to be a bit more general. Either way, of course I've read Animal Farm. permalink fedilink source parent [+] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sudneo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago Orwell wrote a critique of modern society, soviet Stalinist society in particular, in animal farm. It's not an anthropology book, it's political satire that came from a socialist (!). I am not sure your induction that it applies to all humans under every circumstance was therefore intended by the author (lord of the flies might be a much better example in this case). Graeber is actually far for boring, and as an anthropologist his writing tend to be a bit more general. Either way, of course I've read Animal Farm. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent